Mid-Autumn Festival - Mooncakes (Kiwi Style)

At the end of last term we celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival (22nd September 2010) by making (and eating) some Chinese Mooncakes. Well, they weren't quite as professional as the real thing but they tasted yummy. Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated as part of the lunar calendar and the little mooncakes are supposed to look like the moon. As you can see we had fun!

Here's the simple Moon Cake recipe from

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/

Ingredients:

1/4 cup sugar

2 egg yolks

1/2 cup salted butter

1 cup self raising flour

1/2 jar jam (or red bean paste - traditional)

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 190 c

Mix butter, sugar and 1 egg yolk and stir

Mix in flour

Put dough into one ball and wrap in glad wrap

Put in fridge for 30 minutes

Take out and unwrap

Make small balls in the palms of your hand

Make a hole in the centre with your thumb

Fill hole with jam or bean paste

Brush each mooncake with egg yolk

Bake for about 20 minutes or till edges are slightly brown

Yum Yum!!